The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-22
"THE FOOL HATH SAID IN
his HEART THERE
Is NO GOD.'

ual consolation from the first moment
to the last. Not one of them was 9
believer in God, or religion, or moral
accountability, or the Sabbath and it:
ministrations, or a future life, or a
conscience. They did not believe
that the marital relation had any di.
vine sanctity, or any special sanctity,
outside of the affections. They were
infdels. They believed in nothing.
They held nothing sacred. They had
no faith and no hope except in the
disordered pride of unbelief and in a
comprehensive disregard of both hui
men and divine law, of social order,
and of all that YIELDS civilized society
together and renders its associations
endearing and delightful.
Jesus Christ represented on the
earth every interest, every thought,
every hope, every tie of labor and of
the poor. His teachings belong to
every relation that men bear to each
other. His gospel was given to the
poor. His charity was as universal
As humanity. He created in the hearts
and thoughts of mankind, SO far as
His system is believed and practiced
. heaven upon earth. There is no
peace, no fruition of hope, no possible
condition under which mankind may
reach its highest capabilities and as
pirations, that is not exemplifed in
His precepts. He said ''Love thy
neighbor as thyself;;" He said ::
''Feed my lambs )" He said ::
Blessed are the merciful," and "Bles.
sed are the peacemakers." He bore
the cross for all that was evil and sim
full. If there is in all human thought
in all the world of sympathy and love,
q kindly and gracious emotion, it is
the inspiration drawn from Christ and
His religion. Yet the anarchists dis
pise His name, reject His divine mis-
sion, revile His undying truths and
deny that He was God revealed in the
flesh. Jesus Christ said also: "Ren-
der unto Caesar the things that are
C@sar's," and He held that obedience
to human laws was prepare ton and
discipline for obedience to divine laws
and was also its matured and bene6-
cent fruit.
For this reason, probably, anarchy
has espoused infdelity. Lawlessness
is anarchy. All that hates and de-
spises the law is anarchy. Anarchy
is revolt against all law, human and
divine. Anarchy begins in infdelity.
1t begins in a defiance of God. 1t
ends in such tragedies as were enacted
at the haymarket in Chicago, May 4,
1886, and in the Jail of the same city,
November II, 1887. Irreligion, a
denial of Christianity, disbelief in
Bible truths are the pernicious seed
from which this pernicious fruit has
proceeded.
Every teacher of infdelity, of a
Christless civilization and culture, of
contempt for religion and its divine
truths, of disbelief in Christian Cos
pei, is an anarchist in his heart, and
his teachings lead to such scenes as
those of the Reign of Terror in France
and of the dynamite tragedy in Chi
cago. From Voltaire down to Bob
Ingersoll, every public teacher who
has taught disbelief in God, in the
Bible, in a future life and in human
accountability, is responsible for the
blood that has been shed in war against
social law and in atonement for crimes
against society and its laws.
There are men whose daily lives are
possibly more impure than those of
the anarchist teachers, who violates
the moral law, the laws of home, the
laws of business and the laws of pro,
priety. But they are not, like the an
archists, the enemies of society. In
their best thoughts and impulses they
are conservators of society. They are
opposed to lawlessness and ruin. The
anarchist, however pure his private